The High Court rejected Thursday, by a majority of 8:1, a motion that
asked it to strike down a 2010 law pardoning people who broke the law
while demonstrating against the 2005 Expulsion from Gaza.

The law stopped legal proceedings against demonstrators who were not
convicted of serious violence, and who were not charged in military
courts.

In July 2011, a panel of three High Court judges asked the state to
offer arguments as to why the court should not strike down the law.
The judges were responding to a motion filed by two lawyers, Omer
Shatz and Yiftach Cohen, who represented 12 protesters arrested near
Jerusalem´s Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood. The lawyers claimed that
the law was discriminatory in that it gave a license to a specific
political and ideological group to break the law – but did not give a
similar license to members of other ideological groups.